Monday, 31 May 2010
Newsy
On NEWSY select the piece of news you want to watch / hear, listen to it as many times as necessary and then listen to it once more reading the transcript. Easy!!!
Monday, 24 May 2010
Passive Voice
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
elllo Listening Practice
Get listening practice on elllo advanced page: these listenings can be fast, long, and/or complicated.
Phrasal Verbs
Monday, 17 May 2010
Bill Bryson: The story of the electric light
For centuries, we hunched over candles after dark. Then gas and electricity arrived – and the world lit up. In the latest extract from his new book, the acclaimed writer reveals the bizarre story of how artificial light came to transform our lives
Read this Bill Bryson's writing on the Guardian. It's a good read.
Read this Bill Bryson's writing on the Guardian. It's a good read.
Friday, 14 May 2010
Modelos de tarea de pruebas de Certificación de las EEOOII del País Vasco
You can see the samples here. Go to Nivel Avanzado Inglés and remember that the exams are not exactly the same here and in the Basque Country.
Are our brains built for languages?
Learning a language is no easy task. Like optical illusions, language can play tricks on the brain, explained New York University psychologist Gary Marcus at a lecture at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Simple syntactic ambiguities, he argued, throw a wrench into prevalent theories that the human brain is well evolved—or even optimally evolved—for language.
Read this article about the brain and languages; it's interesting!
You can read more articles on CELT.
Read this article about the brain and languages; it's interesting!
You can read more articles on CELT.
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Sunday, 9 May 2010
Friday, 7 May 2010
QUIZ
Try this 14-question Total English Quiz to revise your art, music, photograph vocabulary. Key on p. 2.
Monday, 3 May 2010
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